by Media Team | Jul 22, 2008 | News
Last Wednesday, a delegation from the Canadian Labour Congress(shown above, with VWC Healthcare Organizer Erika Simard) visited the Workers’ Center. The visit was part of a week-long class called The Changing Face of the Canadian Labour Movement:...
by Media Team | Jul 19, 2008 | News
Health care as a human right?Written By Michelle MonroeWednesday, July 16, 2008 ST. ALBANS CITY — The Vermont Worker’s Center (VWC) has launched a statewide campaign to re-conceptualize health care as a human right and change what is “politically possible,” according...
by Media Team | Jul 4, 2008 | News
UPDATE: Over 60 service center workers and supporters from the VWC rallied in St. Albans on July 14, while USCIS workers in California took action as well.More » UE Local 208 USCIS Vermont Service Center workers need your support at their march and rally on July...
by Media Team | Jul 2, 2008 | News
The success of this campaign will depend on the efforts of hundreds and thousands of Vermonters — workers, students, retirees and folks on disability — reaching out to their co-workers, friends, neighbors and communities about the campaign. Please consider...
by Media Team | Jul 1, 2008 | News
The Workers’ Center is pleased to announced that we have hired a new organizer for the Healthcare is a Human Right campaign: Erika Simard, who lost her healthcare benefits three years ago when Specialty Filaments, the factory she worked at for 22 years, closed...